Julie grew up in an ‘arty’  family that loved making things. Julie began by replicating the craft activities shown on Play School. Crochet became a passion when her daughter was born and she started making hats and toys and craft practice evolved into ‘art’ and the result is detailed soft-sculptures of people, animals and monsters.

 

In 2010 two of her sculptures were chosen from hundreds of submissions by Tim Burton in his top 14 favourite entries in the ‘Tim Burton Wonderland Gallery competition at ACMI. She has exhibited at the Linden postcard show and received the Best Small Sculpture Award at the inaugural Albert Park College Art Show in 2011 and again in 2014. Her work has appeared in the Age Newspaper in the 'I Made it Myself'  and 'Art and Design sections.

 

In 2012 Julie was commissioned by Oh Yeah Wow, an award winning animation and video production company, to crochet a human heart (anatomically correct) for a Kate Miller-Heidke music clip and 2 giant Quadrapus for a music clip for international artists Wax Taylor and Aloe Blacc.

 

In the same year Avante Card awarded her a free postcard campaign under their emerging

artists scheme.

 

2014  Julie's ‘Funny Lady Sutra’ portrait of Judith Lucy won the People’s choice award in the CAE ‘Reginald’, softie portrait competition and the Best Small Sculpture Award and the APC Art Exhibition.

 

2013, 2015, 2017 and 2018 had works accepted into the prestigious ‘Toorak Village Sculpture Exhibition’

2016: Julie  was commissioned by Wabi Sabi Studios to 'skin' stop-motion animation character armatures with crochet for a short film called 'Lost and Found'.

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2018-19 'Lost and Found' premiered at the Berlin Festival and won the Yoram Gross Best Australian Animated Short Film at the Sydney Film Festival, an ACCTA for best animated short and a host of international awards. In 2019 Lost and Found was short-listed for the Academy Awards.

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Julie is also an award winning graphics designer and has been employed by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation  for over 20 years, working in both the TV and Online environments.